Breaking: North Korea Threatens To Cancel Peace Meeting with Trump

North Korea announced that it has canceled a scheduled May 16 summit with South Korea, The South Korean news agency Yonhap reported Tuesday, citing North Korea’s state media outlet, KNCA.

North Korea and South Korea had agreed “to hold high-level inter-Korea talks on May 16 to discuss steps needed to uphold the pledge to denuclearize the Korean peninsula, South Korea’s Unification Ministry said,” CNBC reported.

The country also threatened to cancel a scheduled June 12 summit between Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump in Singapore.

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According to KNCA, North Korea canceled the South Korean summit because of U.S. military drills with South Korea. The state media outlet claimed the drills were a rehearsal for a potential invasion of the country, Fox News reported.

This unexpected news come after several positive developments between North Korea and the United States in the past month.

In what many viewed as a goodwill gesture ahead of the scheduled summit between Trump and Kim, three Korean-Americans were welcomed home to the U.S. on Thursday after being released from the North Korean regime.

I am pleased to inform you that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in the air and on his way back from North Korea with the 3 wonderful gentlemen that everyone is looking so forward to meeting. They seem to be in good health. Also, good meeting with Kim Jong Un. Date & Place set.

Finally, North Korea announced over the weekend that it would be holding a ceremony later this month to destroy its nuclear testing site.

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A statement from the country’s foreign minister promised that “all of the tunnels at the country’s northeastern testing ground will be destroyed by explosion, and observation and research facilities and ground-based guard units will also be removed,” ABC News reported.

Trump praised the decision, calling it a “very smart and gracious gesture.”